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Mitch Homma, a 3rd generation Japanese American, grew up and still lives in Southern California. He has long been interested in Japanese and Japanese American …
This article is a follow-up to the writer’s original “Living in South Los Angeles — Today as a Japanese American” story. This story further explores …
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I’ve been thinking about what we save. I’ve been looking through one of my oldest auntie’s scrapbooks. Because I know that it will also fall …
At first, her voice is scratchy as her phone connects to mine across thousands of miles of sea, me sitting in a dorm room at …
“I will never forget seeing my great-grandfather’s photograph in his immigration case file,” Marisa Louie Lee recalls. “The moment I opened the folder and saw …
This is what Regina Boone knows about her grandfather: His name was Tsujiro Miyazaki. He came to this country, family legend has it, as a …
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An opportunity to reflect on my family history After working at an advertising firm in Japan, Misaki Matsui headed to America on her own. Now she …
Read part 2 >>The Shinmoto family was back together again in the Los Angeles area by late 1946. Father and son, Tony, had set up …
Read part 1 >>It was August 1942 when we boarded trains to unknown places. I remember going through Los Angeles with the shades drawn; the …
The Shinmoto family history in America dates back to 1923, when Tsuneo Anthony (Tony), then five months old, and his father, Tsunetaro (1897-1972) and mother, …
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